Omraam Michael Aivanhov

Peter Deunov (Beinsa Dounov), who lived in Bulgaria from 1864 to 1944, was a great and inspired teacher of the Perennial Wisdom - the essential thread of truth running through all the major world religions. He was an extraordinary man who at once embodied great simplicity and tremendous profundity.

The sage’s laugh is a laugh of freedom. For what the sage has understood has freed him from the pointless burdens of life and propelled him to regions where an eternal sun shines.

Even if the words of a spiritual Master can be contained in books, paper books would never be enough for him. He is himself a living book, and he needs his disciples to become living books too.

Feuerstein has captured the spirit of Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov's life of loving compassion and his practical yet profound teaching. For example, Feuerstein says: "To realize the Spirit, we must vibrate at its unsurpassed rate. Spiritual life can be understood as the discipline of voluntarily stepping up our rate of vibration."

Artists create works that are external to themselves using external materials; they concentrate their efforts on this external matter, and they create marvels.

Although we may know about heliocentricity from the point of view of astronomy, we are still far from having exhausted all its possibilities in the biological, psychological, cultural and spiritual spheres.